Agricultural Law

The Agriculture Team is headed by Susan Matthews and involves areas of expertise across several departments, including the Property and Planning departments, Private Client department, and the Company Commercial department. Our team specialises in:

Farm and Land Sales and Purchases

Farming Company Sales and Acquisitions

Capital Taxation Advice

Complex Wills and Succession Planning

Planning Law Advice

Agricultural Holdings Act and Farm Business Tenancy Advice

Farming Partnership Advice

Shooting Leases and Licences

We act for land owners across Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire for established landed estates, large scale owner occupier farmers, tenant farmers, smallholders, equestrian business clients and businesses connected to agriculture, such as feed and machinery suppliers and commodity merchants.

Agricultural Law Team

Susan joined Hayes + Storr in 2011 and in April 2013 became a Director.

Susan qualified as a solicitor in 2005 at US firm Jones Day and specialises in commercial and commercial property matters with a focus on agricultural law.

Susan returned to Norfolk to live and bring up her children on the family farm and worked in commercial property at a local law firm for four years before joining Hayes and Storr.

Susan is a fellow of the Agricultural Law Association having passed her exams in 2014 and a member of the CLA.

Susan is a keen athlete and enjoys running, cycling and playing hockey. She has successfully completed the Three Peaks Challenge and the Norfolk Superhero Challenge raising thousands of pounds for local charities in the process and last year ran the first leg in the Round Norfolk Relay for local club Ryston Runners.